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2 Derandomization Let Q be the set of all (1, 2)-trees of size 2D log(sT )/ log D. The idea is to round the variables in such a way that no (1, 2)-tree T ∈ Q becomes bad. We denote xj to be the vector (xj,1 , xj,2 , . . , xj,T ) and yj to be (yj,1 , yj,2 , . . , yj,T ) for any j ∈ [n]. Recall that rounding the variables is nothing but assigning colors to the vertices of the hypergraph. For all j ∈ [n] we choose yj so as to minimize the probability of some (1, 2)-tree T ∈ Q turning bad if we randomly round xj+1 , .